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Young People, Media, and Nostalgia: An Ethnography of How Youth Imagine their Lives

This book explores how Latin American young people engage with nostalgic representations of the 1970s and 1980s through contemporary media.

Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Costa Rica, this book analyses how young people make sense of nostalgic representations of transnational pasts, thus creating a link between media reception practices and broader social, cultural, economic, and political structures. By examining media reception, social imaginaries, and young audiences in the Global South, this book brings to the fore new insights concerning the role media has in fostering senses of national memory by highlighting the key role of everyday media engagements in comprehending the relationship between past, present and future.

This comprehensive empirical study will be of interest to scholars, researchers and students of media and communications studies, Latin American studies, sociology, digital culture, memory studies, social and cultural anthropology, youth studies, cultural studies, and readers interested in popular culture, television, and cinema.

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Young People, Media, and Nostalgia: An Ethnography of How Youth Imagine their Lives

This book explores how Latin American young people engage with nostalgic representations of the 1970s and 1980s through contemporary media.

Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Costa Rica, this book analyses how young people make sense of nostalgic representations of transnational pasts, thus creating a link between media reception practices and broader social, cultural, economic, and political structures. By examining media reception, social imaginaries, and young audiences in the Global South, this book brings to the fore new insights concerning the role media has in fostering senses of national memory by highlighting the key role of everyday media engagements in comprehending the relationship between past, present and future.

This comprehensive empirical study will be of interest to scholars, researchers and students of media and communications studies, Latin American studies, sociology, digital culture, memory studies, social and cultural anthropology, youth studies, cultural studies, and readers interested in popular culture, television, and cinema.

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Young People, Media, and Nostalgia: An Ethnography of How Youth Imagine their Lives

Young People, Media, and Nostalgia: An Ethnography of How Youth Imagine their Lives

by Rodrigo Muñoz-González
Young People, Media, and Nostalgia: An Ethnography of How Youth Imagine their Lives
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Young People, Media, and Nostalgia: An Ethnography of How Youth Imagine their Lives

Young People, Media, and Nostalgia: An Ethnography of How Youth Imagine their Lives

by Rodrigo Muñoz-González

Overview

This book explores how Latin American young people engage with nostalgic representations of the 1970s and 1980s through contemporary media.

Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Costa Rica, this book analyses how young people make sense of nostalgic representations of transnational pasts, thus creating a link between media reception practices and broader social, cultural, economic, and political structures. By examining media reception, social imaginaries, and young audiences in the Global South, this book brings to the fore new insights concerning the role media has in fostering senses of national memory by highlighting the key role of everyday media engagements in comprehending the relationship between past, present and future.

This comprehensive empirical study will be of interest to scholars, researchers and students of media and communications studies, Latin American studies, sociology, digital culture, memory studies, social and cultural anthropology, youth studies, cultural studies, and readers interested in popular culture, television, and cinema.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781040156858
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 10/25/2024
Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 216

About the Author

Rodrigo Muñoz-González is lecturer at the School of Communication of the University of Costa Rica. He holds a PhD in Media and Communications from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

Table of Contents

1. Back in Time

2. From Memory to Nostalgia

3. Making Sense of Nostalgia

4. Imagining the Past: Idealisations and Ambivalences

5. Per Aspera Ad Adstra

6. Charming Pasts and Impossible Futures

7. Nostalgia as Structure of Feeling

8. Epilogue: A Meditation on Homecomings

Appendix: Research Design

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